diff --git a/docs/source/installation.rst b/docs/source/installation.rst
index d0f4d333152a81176ee7eae90f7da6bc09f29a7b..2cfb177a17d93ef4254ddf440af4ad4aac503934 100644
--- a/docs/source/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/source/installation.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Next, we bootstrap the system. This will build our docker images, start key ones
 
 If you lack access to LOFAR station hardware, load additional configurations to use the simulators instead::
 
-  for sim in ../CDB/\*-sim-config.json; do
+  for sim in ../CDB/*-sim-config.json; do
     ../sbin/update_ConfigDb.sh ../CDB${sim}-config.json
   done